Use the line tool to Draw a straight horizontal line on your stage.
Use the arrow tool to bend this line up.
Use the line tool to draw a horizontal line to connect the two ends of
the curved line.
Use the arrow tool to bend the straight line down to make the bottom of
the leaf.
Use the line tool to make a stem.
Use the arrow tool to bend the stem to a curve.
Select the fill paint bucket and set the fill to radial gradient. Set
the inside color to yellow and outside to red. Fill your shape.
Draw a line down the center of the leaf and bend it. a little.
Draw in straight lines from the leave spine to the edges as shown on
right.
Use the arrow tool to highlight your drawing and click Insert=>convert
to symbol.
2. Making Falling Leaves Movie Clip
Create a new symbol call falling leaves
Open your library and drag the leaf symbol into the falling leaves
symbol.
Put key frames in frames 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55,
and 60.
Use
your arrow tool to move your leaf in frame 5 to the right side of the
screen and down a bit. Move frame 10 to the left and down more, frame 15
should be to the right and down more, and so on down the line.
Pivot the leaves using the arrow tool and the rotate option to rotate
the leaves slightly on one side.
On frame 60, set an effect on your leaf as alpha = 0.
On frames 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 55, set the
tweening on the frames panel to be Motion Tween.
Duplicate the falling leaves movie clip. Open the falling leaves copy.
Click on the timeline numbers and add frames by hitting the F5 key in
random places.
Duplicate the falling leaves movie clip again Open this clip and add
frames for the clip randomly again.
Continue duplicating clips and changing them so no 2 clips are the
same.
3.
Constructing your movie
Place your falling leaves movie clip and its copies just above the
stage of your main scene. You may want to flip some over horizontally by
clicking modify=>transform=> flip horizontal.
Every third clip, apply a tint effect on the effects panel where the
color is yellow with a value of 40%
Every other third clip make the effect value red and give it a value
of 27%
Add the rest of your movie such as text, photos, etc. In the example
below, I added the jack-o-lantern from the
jack-o-lantern tutorial.